U.S. History trivia quiz

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  1. William Jennings Bryan
  2. Daniel Webster
  3. Either James Madison or Gouverneur Morris
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  1. On a Caribbean island… St. Kitts?
  2. The Coast Guard’s training ship, Eagle, which was taken as reparations after WW2. It was formerly called the Horst Wessel after a “martyred” Nazi thug.
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  1. Close, but wrong.
  2. Correct.
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Some more… how about other U.S. warships?

  1. This destroyer was sunk by a U-boat before the U.S. was technically at war with Germany in WW2.
  2. This battleship made a famous dash around South America to reach the Pacific during the Spanish-American War.
  3. The USS Missouri is a _________-class battleship.
  4. The first Trident-class ballistic missile submarine was the USS ________.
  5. John Paul Jones won his battle against HMS Serapis but lost his own ship, the _______ ________ _______.
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  1. The USS Missouri is a _________-class battleship. New Jersey

  2. John Paul Jones won his battle against HMS Serapis but lost his own ship, the _______ ________ _______. Bon Homme Richard

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The USS Ohio.

To pick a nit: they are the Ohio class boats, firing Trident missiles. No more than the Polaris is the proper name of the classes of earlier boomers. (Though, I couldn’t tell you what the class vessel of the Polaris missile boats might be.)

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Iowa.

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  1. Wild horse of the Osage - Pepper Martin?

  2. The great Compromiser - Henry Clay?

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Yep

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Here’s a couple more Naval ones:

  1. Can anyone name the name ship, that is the ship for which the following class took its name, for the first version of the US Navy’s Aegis Cruiser?

  2. The Aegis system was built around the SPY-1 phased array radar. This was not the first time a phased array radar was put into a US Navy warship. Name one of the two ships that first pioneered the original phased array radar.

  3. The USS Arleigh Burke was named after a famous WWII Admiral. What made naming the ship after him so unusual?

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I’ve also heard that it should not have a period (full stop for you Brits) after it. The problem is, that LOOKS like you’ve made a mistake. Like the people who spell their first name “Mathew.”

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  1. What American city was once described as “hell with the lid off?”

  2. What is its most famous museum dedicated to the works of arguably its most famous artist? (Shares the same block, said a critic, as an Italian eatery where alll the customers seem to be related to Roseanne Arnold and John Goodman.)

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  1. Incorrect.
  2. Correct.
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Correct, and duly noted. The first Polaris-carrying boat was the USS George Washington, IIRC.

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  1. USS Ticonderoga
  2. USS Long Beach
  3. He was still alive at the time.
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Correct. Now moored at Pearl Harbor, not far from the sunken USS Arizona.

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All correct. The other vessel that would have been a correct answer for 221 was the USS Enterprise.

About Arliegh Burke - I can’t swear to it, but I think he is the only person honored with a ship named after him in the US Navy who was alive at the launching of that ship.

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There was at least one more, and (odds are) in 2009, there will be another.

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  1. Pittsburgh
  2. The Andy Warhol Museum
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D’oh! :smack: How could I forget Mr. Peanut?